A Mechanical Engineer by qualification, Gurdeep Singh, CMD, NTPC, has over 28 years of experience in power generation sector. He started his career with NTPC and has worked at various levels in both Indian and multi-national companies such as Powergen, CLP, IDFC, CESC and AES.

Tata Power, India’s largest integrated power company, today announced its results for the quarter ended June 30th, 2017, reporting a 126 per cent increase in PAT and 28 per cent increase in standalone PAT as compared to Q1FY17.

With due consideration towards Tata Steel’s initiative to reducing carbon footprint, a 3 MW solar PV power plant has been commissioned at Noamundi - the first in any iron ore mine in the country. The project, covering 19 acres of land, was executed by Tata Power Solar and will help reduce CO2 emission by about 3,000 tonnes p.a.

Tata Power Solar, announced that the company has ramped up the scale of business substantially by focusing on building state of art technology, engineering and strengthening on customer and employee satisfaction. Tata Power Solar increased its revenue by more than two and a half times in just two years to reach Rs 2,262 crore.

Solar has many unique attributes which make it a preferred source of power, particularly in India, a densely populated country with a high energy deficit - where it can be rapidly deployed across most parts of the country, due to its modular nature and by virtue of it being environment friendly.

There have been many new policies in solar recently and GoI has set a target of 100 GW by 2022 and as such the perspective is that there is a lot of scope and potential for Indian solar manufacturing. However, the ground reality is that not much has happened.

Tata Power Solar has been ranked number one rooftop player among EPC companies in the recently published India Solar Rooftop Map 2016 report by Bridge to India, a leading cleantech consulting firm. According to the report, the total installed capacity in the rooftop segment is 1,020 MW as of September 2016.